On Mon 13 Jun 2011 at 11:59:46 +0100, AG wrote: > Just to be clear then, this will hold back the two udev* packages from > being updated? Yes. > At some point, I'm assuming the udev maintainer will fix the problems in > the udev_170-1 so how will I reverse this hold so that I can later > update to the fixed packages? echo "<package> install" | dpkg --set-selecions If you use it, it's possible aptitude can do hold/unhold.